20 Domain Controller Alias Name Update

I thought about creating a cname entry but i believe that s only if it s an iis.
Domain controller alias name. I m trying to create an alias to a domain controller our pdc so if i do a aliasname netlogon i will see the netlogon share or if i enter aliasname it will display the shares on the server. You can identify a domain controller by its guid ipv4address global ipv6address or dns host name. Graeme bray here with an article around using computer name aliases instead of dns cname records.
You can use this procedure to add an alias canonical name cname resource record for your web server to a zone in dns on your domain controller. I tried creating a dns a record but it doesn t seem to work. Yes it is possible to create a cname alias record for a domain controller.
With cname records you can use more than one name to point to a single host making it easy to do such things as host both a file transfer protocol ftp server and a web server on the same computer. When a destination domain controller receives event id 2087 in the directory service event log attempts to resolve the globally unique identifier guid in the alias cname resource record the fully qualified domain name fqdn and the netbios name to the ip address of the source domain controller have all failed. If a problem comes up all you need to do is power up the old dc instead of backing out the name change change.
Starting with windows server 2008 we added functionality to be able to create a computer. You can then move roles to the new dc power off the old box wait.